Hurricane Sandy-damaged home burglarized, Parsippany police say

PARSIPPANY — Police are looking for whoever stole a refrigerator from an abandoned home.

View full sizeA Hurricane Sandy-damaged home on River Drive in Parsippany was burglarized, Parsippany police said.Google Maps

Officers Ross Cooper and William Stone responded to an abandoned River Drive home in Lake Hiawatha Oct. 29, police said.

A neighbor told them she noticed the backdoor of the home was open and the refrigerator was usually able to be seen through the window was no longer there, police said.

Cooper and Stone saw that someone had forced themselves through the back of the home and that copper was missing from the home, according to police. Wires were dangling from inside the gutted home, and the backyard shed had also appeared to have been disturbed, police said.

Residents told Cooper and Stone a suspicious white van had been seen several times in the area, and two men were inside it, police said.

The home had been purchased by Parsippany after Hurricane Sandy, police said.

Anyone with information regarding the incident was asked by police to call the Parsippany Police Department at 973-263-4311.